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Education and Training of Women
Education is human right and an essential tool for achieving the goals of equality, development and peace. Non-discriminatory education benefits both girls and boys and thus ultimately contributes to more equal relationships between women and men.
- GLOBAL EDUCATION DIGEST 2010
Comparing Education Statistics Across the World
[ www.uis.unesco.org ]
Languages: English
The 2010 edition of the Global Education Digest focuses on gender and education to mark the 15th anniversary of the Fourth World Conference on Women. Shortly after this landmark conference in 1995, the international community pledged to eliminate gender disparities at all levels of education by 2015 as part of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). As the official source of data to monitor advancement towards these goals, the UIS has released the Digest on the eve of the UN Millennium Summit (New York, 20-22 September) to present the latest available data to analyse national progress and pitfalls in offering every child and young person equal access to education regardless of their sex. UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS), 2010.
- UNICEF special podcast on education and gender equality
[ www.educationandtransition.org ]
Languages: English
Special podcast marking International Women’s Day 2010: According to latest UNICEF estimates, girls make up more than half of the 101 million children of primary school age that are not in school. To look at the advances made and challenges ahead for girls’ education, moderator Amy Costello spoke to Tamara Kreinin, executive director of Women and Population at the United Nations Foundation, and the Honourable Ambassador Professor Samson Kagengo Ongeri, Kenya’s Minister of Education and UNICEF Champion for Child-Friendly Schools.
- The United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI)
[ www.ungei.org ]
Languages: English | French | Spanish
The United Nations Girls' Education Initiative (UNGEI), launched in April 2000, is a partnership that embraces the United Nations system, governments, donor countries, non-governmental organizations, civil society, the private sector, and communities and families. UNGEI provides stakeholders with a platform for action and galvanizes their efforts to get girls in school. Its goal is to narrow the gender gap in primary and secondary education and to ensure that by 2015, all children complete primary schooling, with girls and boys having equal access to all levels of education.
- Women, Science, Technology
[ www.unesco.org ]
Languages: English | French
Pages on women and science and technology - with links to forums and other resources
- FAO: Gender and Education, Extension and Communication
[ www.fao.org ]
Languages: English
Statistics, programmes, documents and fact files
- Online Discussion: Education and Training of Women and the Girl-child
[ www.un.org ]
Languages: English
From October 2004 to January 2005, WomenWatch hosted a series of online discussions on the Platform's critical areas of concern and other important issues to provide input into the review and appraisal of the Bejing Declaration and Platform for Action. All postings and background notes are available for reading as archived online discussion.
- UNICEF: Girls' education
[ www.unicef.org ]
Languages: English
- 'Beyond School Books': Gender equality (Podcast)
[ www.unicef.org ]
Languages: English
Segment #6 of ‘Beyond School Books’, a UNICEF podcast series on education in emergencies, focuses on education as a key to the advancement of women in countries emerging from conflict. UNICEF, 2008
- UN DPI: Empowering Women Through Education
[ www.un.org ]
Languages: English
UN Chronicle, 1999-2003
- UNESCO: Issues Paper on Inclusion of Gender Perspectives in Family Education
[ www.unescobkk.org ]
Languages: English
2003, PDF
- UNESCO: Institute for Statistics: Gender and Education for All - The Leap to Equality
[ www.uis.unesco.org ]
Languages: English | French | Spanish | Russian
Second edition of the Education for All Global Monitoring Report, 2003
- UNRISD: Gender and Education: A Review of Issues for Social Policy
[ www.unrisd.org ]
Languages: English
Overview of key issues relating to the achievement of gender equality in education, 2002
- UNESCO Institute for Statistics: Gender-Sensitive Education Statistics and Indicators
[ www.uis.unesco.org ]
Languages: English | French
This guide builds up awareness of gender-sensitive education statistics and indicators to effectively monitor gender disparities in education, 2002.
- FAO: Higher agricultural education and opportunities in rural development for women
[ www.fao.org ]
Languages: English
Overview and summary of five case-studies, 1997 publication
- UNESCO: When girls go missing from the classroom
[ www.unesco.org ]
Languages: English
Journal about gender gap in African schools, 2001
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